Monodromy inflation in SUSY QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Dine, Michael ^a   Draper, Patrick ^a   Monteux, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905391264     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)146     Document Type: Review

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